The Trio (Oscar Peterson album)

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The Trio
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Released1961
RecordedJuly 28–29, 1961
Genre Jazz
Length76:03
Label Verve
Producer Norman Granz
Oscar Peterson chronology
Fiorello!
(1960)
The Trio
(1961)
The Sound of the Trio
(1961)
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The Trio (alternatively titled The Trio: Live From Chicago) is a 1961 live album by the Oscar Peterson Trio, recorded at the London House jazz club in Chicago, during a period in which the pianist "was generally in peak form." [2]

Contents

Three other Oscar Peterson Trio albums were also released featuring music from the London House concerts: The Sound of the Trio , Something Warm and Put On a Happy Face . The complete sessions were released in 1996 as The London House Sessions .

Track listing

Side One

  1. "I've Never Been in Love Before" (Frank Loesser) – 5:35
  2. "In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning" (Bob Hilliard, David Mann) – 8:07
  3. "Chicago" (Fred Fisher) – 8:55

Side Two

  1. "The Night We Called It a Day" (Tom Adair, Matt Dennis) – 4:47
  2. "Sometimes I'm Happy" (Irving Caesar, Clifford Grey, Vincent Youmans) – 11:41
  3. "Whisper Not" (Benny Golson) – 5:46
  4. "Billy Boy" (Traditional) – 1:46

1997 CD reissue bonus tracks

  1. "The Lonesome One" (Oscar Peterson) – 5:32
  2. "The Gravy Waltz" (Steve Allen, Ray Brown) – 4:54
  3. "Woody 'n' You" (Dizzy Gillespie) – 3:48
  4. "Soon" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) – 9:20
  5. "Daahoud" (Clifford Brown) – 5:52

Recorded July 28 (#1–3, 7) and July 29 (#4–6, 8–12), 1961 at the London House, Chicago. [4]

Personnel

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References

  1. Down Beat : March 1, 1962 vol. 29, no. 5
  2. 1 2 AllMusic review
  3. Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1152. ISBN   978-0-141-03401-0.
  4. "Oscar Peterson – The Trio : Live From Chicago". discogs.com. Retrieved on January 18, 2020.